in, against, beyond corona

Butler, Mark; Dennis, Cindy; Xulu, Phiwa; Nsibande, Zodwa; Ntseng, David; Philpott, Graham; Sithole, Zonke; Sokhela, Nomusa; Zuma, Skuumbuzo

ISBN 10: 1988832837 / ISBN 13: 9781988832838

Edité par Daraja Press, 2020

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• Titre: in, against, beyond corona
• Éditeur: Daraja Press
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1988832837
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781988832838
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Part of what is revealed is what is wrong and toxic - in ourselves, in our relations with others, and in our relation with the rest of non-human nature. But it’s also terribly important to listen for and to seek out what is revealed that is good and life-affirming. Both are vital. Our current situation is deeply structured by capitalism and as such has made all of our lives, livelihoods, relations and goods tied up with, and dependent on, reproducing that system. It is clear that the real catastrophe is the inevitable and accelerating spiral of death that flows from that logic of capital and of money. But new (and old too) forms of experimenting in radically different ways of doing/being/relating that flow from it are also revealed – the ways of thinking and doing that reject the logic of power-over, of competition or profit, of exploitation and humiliation. Can these be sustained beyond the immediate corona crisis?; shouldn’t we be encouraging people to identify these areas and think/act them as a present future, planning and imagining how to extend them forward in time?; and expanding them to growing spheres of life? At the level of values and principles, we do wonder whether kindness, social solidarity, and an appropriate scale of time, aren’t perhaps the most important of these? We are much more likely to actually change the world when we listen and tap into all the many ways in which people’s own questions and thinking, their ways of relating and acting, refuse the logic of toxic power and monetised exchange for profit. Here, we will discover already-existing breaks and practices that, instead, embody and embrace the values and principles for a better way of reproducing life.

À propos de l'auteur

Mark Butler has spent a lifetime trying to learn from, and support, emancipatory and popular militancy. At the moment he does this mainly through work with the Church Land Programme, a small, independent non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. He writes to try and distill learnings that emerge from the extraordinary work of mutual encouragement and reflection with militants on the ground, and with his colleagues at the Church Land Programme.